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Trump’s peace plan hits a wall | Ukraine This Week
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Trump’s peace plan hits a wall | Ukraine This Week.

In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, the Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur reports on another failed round of U.S.-Russia diplomacy over a controversial peace plan, as Moscow presses ahead on the battlefield and advances in and near Pokrovsk.
Ukraine’s lights still burn, even if not all the time
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Ukraine’s lights still burn, even if not all the time

About the author: Chris Hennemeyer is a longtime humanitarian worker who spent nearly 40 years in crisis zones across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, Haiti, and briefly Ukraine. Since retiring in 2022, he has spent half of each year volunteering in Ukraine. I wake in the early morning here in Odesa, dark and still, the kind of quiet that means the power is out and the noisy belching generators haven’t yet started up. A look at my phone reveals that the Russians fired 705 air-borne
Why Ukraine rejects Russia's 600,000 army cap demand
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Why Ukraine rejects Russia's 600,000 army cap demand.

Russia failed to break Ukraine’s army on the battlefield, and now it’s trying to do it through a peace plan that would cap Ukraine’s forces at 600,000. Some argue that Ukraine would shrink its army — currently estimated at about 800,000 — after the war anyway.
War Notes: From the battlefield
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War Notes: From the battlefield

Editor’s note: To mark the fourth birthday of the Kyiv Independent, the War Notes newsletter team decided to pass one edition of the newsletter to a special guest writer, who could capture the time and place we are at in Russia's war against Ukraine from a new perspective. You can subscribe to War Notes and the Kyiv Independent’s other newsletters here. About the author: Dimko Zhluktenko is a drone operator in Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces and co-founder of military aid volunteer organizati
Ukraine calendar: What will happen this week
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Ukraine calendar: What will happen this week

Editor's note: This article is a shortened on-site version of KI Insights' public newsletter, The Week Ahead, covering events from December 8-14. Sign up here to start your week with an agenda of Ukraine-related events delivered directly to your inbox every week. The European Union is pressing ahead with efforts to secure a reparations loan backed by frozen Russian assets. Today, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz are holding an emergency
Ukraine is cautiously optimistic as Trump's son-in-law enters peace talks — here's why
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Ukraine is cautiously optimistic as Trump's son-in-law enters peace talks — here's why

As U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner takes on a more active role in the latest peace push, Ukrainian officials say they are cautiously optimistic about his involvement. Kushner joined U.S.-Ukraine negotiations in Geneva on Nov. 23 and in Florida on Nov. 30, and then traveled to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Dec. 2. "The very fact that Trump added Kushner is a good sign," Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of Ukraine's parliamentary foreign affairs committee